tower of song

well my friends have gone and my hair is grey

i ache in the places where i used to play

and i'm crazy for love but i'm not coming on

i'm just paying my rent every day

in the tower of song

i said to hank williams: how lonely does it get?

hank williams hasn't answered yet

but i can hear him coughing all night long

about a hundred floors above me

in the tower of song

i was born like this

i had no choice

i was born with the gift of a golden voice

and twenty-seven angels from the great beyond

they just tied me to this table right here

in the tower of song

well you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll

i'm very sorry

baby

doesn't look like me at all

i'm standing near the window where the light is strong

oh they don't let a woman kill you

not in the tower of song

i see you standing on the other side

i don't know how the river got so wide

i loved you baby

way back when

and all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed

but i feel so close to everything that we lost

we'll never

we'll never have to lose it again

well i bid you farewell

i don't know when i'll be back

they're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track

but you'll be hearing from me baby

long after i'm gone

i'll be speaking to you sweetly from a window

in the tower of song

i'll be speaking to you sweetly from a window

in the tower of song

i'll be speaking to you sweetly from a window

in the tower of song